Do you ubuntu?

[j4]

I've been watching (mostly via her twitterings on the subject) the saga of famous librarian Jessamyn installing Ubuntu on a library computer; it's a heartwarming tale, but it's made a kind of bittersweet parallel to my own tale of woe as I've completely failed to get anything other than OS 9 installed on my old G3 Mac, due to its apparent inability to boot from anything other than its own 60GB-of-pure-stubborness hard drive. (It's a long, frustrating and not terribly interesting story.) Today, even the Motley Fool is raving about Ubuntu. I feel as though someone's laughing at me.

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[jamboi.livejournal.com]

My 802.11g card is a broadcom, but I understand that issue (and support isn't important to me in any case).

The problem was more that there were all manner of bizzare artefacts with my Radeon 9600 (the sort of card that I'm sure works with no problem on i386) It also seemed to start using 1024*768 (very annoying on a 16:10 TFT) and crashing whenever I changed the res on the fly. The thing also froze frequently and arbitrarily during normal operation.

The fact of the matter is that if you bought an iMac G5 you probably did so purely for MacOS (or because you like expensive/pretty computers?). You can compile pretty much any UNIXey stuff you want anyway, so the incentive to poke around and make it work wasn't really there for me at any rate.